I mean, really? I am really getting old or have high school graduations become the BIGGEST waste of time to attend for the simple fact that, well, it's a waste of an hour. Do I sound like a cold hearted bitch who should remember that I once graduated from high school? Well, 1- I've mentioned my graduation before (reader's digest version but you get the picture) and 2- see if you won't agree me with after my latest experience:
So we went to AB's and our other cousin's graduation Thursday night (they went to the same school so at least we go to kill 2 birds with 1 stone!). I was actually really excited to go, being that I was just in awe that AB was graduating. Not that I didn't think he would! It was more of the fact that I remember his mom showing us her belly when she was pregnant with him and especially, when we had the baby shower for my aunt, the house we were at had a Nintendo and I passed the whole game of Super Mario Bros. (the OG) without losing a life!!! That's hardcore for an 8 year old! I've told AB that story so many times that he now makes fun of me....
Anyways, back to the graduation! It was at 8 at night (BIG + in my book), they had the choir sing like 2 or so songs that were very nice and pretty (a + plus again) and then the ended the whole graduation with fireworks. At first I was like, "Chees-zay!" but right when I was going to say, "Why are we watching these lame ass....", the fireworks got pretty good! Like there were 1/4 of the size of Disneyland's night show! That's impressive in my book.....
And you know what??? THOSE WERE THE ONLY HIGHLIGHTS!!!!!!! Everything else, SUCKED! We couldn't even heard ANYONE'S names, let alone see them, the sound system was absolute shit, there was WAY too much noise, ala "let's bring horns, pots, PA systems, and whatever else we can use to annoy others around us". I even yelled at someone cuz she didn't bring anything to make noise so she made her own by shrieking as if she was in a horror movie about to be chopped into very fine pieces and ready to be thrown in a wood chipper! She was sitting behind us, RIGHT behind my father and he was already irritated about being there and then this stupid hunk of meat did that. I turned around and said, "REALLY!? Did you REALLY have to do THAT!!!?!?" and her response was that her brother just graduated. I then said, "I don't care if your whole family is up there, that was rude and stupid! Who do you think you are??? You just screamed into my father's ear, let alone who knows who's names others missed because of that! You idiot!" All my family was telling me to shut up, especially LBS cuz she thought I was going to get "shanked"!
I always thought that my graduation was SUPER lame cuz we couldn't cheer or clap when someone's name was called. Now I kinda see why.... BTW- I'm still going on record that my graduation still sucked, just not as bad as this one! From having to wear all white (full & half slip under the gown!), walking in as if we were going to get married (seriously, 175 walking in like that tooks about 30-40 mins, no lie!), not being able to wear sunglasses at 8 in the morning and looking/facing right into the sun, to the infamous speech of "anyone who cheers will be escorted out" and then repeating, "we will call security on you if you continue to cheer" (cheering being a "yay" or clapping, not bullhorns or pots & pans!), mine SUCKED!!! It was not an enjoyable day, let alone not even an emotional day! I was a fucking mess for my 8th grade graduation and all I wanted was to leave my high school graduation and go back to bed!!!
So while I sat in torture, I thought about the 3 best high school graduations I had ever gone to:
Starting at #3- Vista High School, C/O 1999 (San Diego County)
It was not only PH's high school graduation but also my "Will's"..... Yeah there were the bullhorns and what not but you could still hear EVERYONE'S name. I also sat with a great bunch of people that I had become friends with. Afterwards, I was looking for PH but ended up with all of "Will's" friends and some family. I had a blast taking tons of pictures and actually celebrating my friend's accomplishments. It was a really great time.
#2- El Modena High School, C/O 2000 (Orange County)
So this was actually a very bittersweet graduation for me. This was actually suppose to be my graduation. See, I went to public school from K-6 then my folks had me go to a catholic school for 7th & 8th. I said, "Fine but I'm still going to Elmo." They said I could yet when it came time to apply and take tests for the private schools, my folks urged me to take them, you know, "just to see how I would do and see if I could pass the test". Well, since I did, they basically said that I needed to go! I fought. I fought HARD!!! I had ALWAYS imagined, since I was in kindergarten, that I was going to be president of the school, play softball for Elmo (I even met the coach!), do drama and just have a good time with all my friends! Nope. Didn't work out that way. I will say that my mom did try really hard to get my dad to let me go yet he had always wanted his girls to go to an all girl's school to get this "best education around" (BTW- El Modena- One of the BEST public high schools in SoCalifornia, let alone maybe the STATE!). Now, if the high school I went to were to burn down, my father would be the first to piss on the ashes!
Anyways, back to the graduation-- One of my very good and dear friends from Prospect (the elementary school I went to) invited me since you needed a ticket. As I sat there in the bleachers, I was so happy and proud of all my friends that I saw but I just couldn't help think that I should have been walking with them. It was truly an enjoyable time. Everyone was so happy and excited and truly worked their asses off! I saw some of my friends who didn't have the best up bringing, their first language being Spanish and would have a difficult time with school work actually graduate and when they saw me, they gave me hugs and asked how I was. One guy in particular had the up bringing of living in a REALLY bad neighborhood with the worst gangs in Orange County (some of his really good friends and family members were part of them!) and there he was graduating. I went up to him and gave him the biggest hug and told him how proud I was of him since I didn't see any of his other friends graduate with him.... All and all, it was basically a perfect graduation, with just the lil exception that I should have been with them graduating....
And #1, by FAR:
Trabuco Hills High School, C/O 2007:
Wow. That's all I should just say but of course I can't! This was a MINDBLOWING graduation! See, this was a graduation for my friend yet I was closer to her brother, who at the time, was my best friend (Since September, we went on our separate ways due to the fact he thinks with his dick than with his head/heart.... AKA- chose the stupid bitch he was going out with over me to hang out with, who, since god knows when, they broke up! Anyways....)
So at first, I was kinda worried since I had never met their folks. I knew that the parents were on the verge of getting a divorce and I didn't know how they would be since I was basically sitting by myself with them for awhile, waiting for my best friend to arrive! Well, the mom and I got along RIGHT from the start! She's a great lady! Even though it was a late afternoon/early evening graduation, we had very good seats that were NOT facing the sun, while we waited for the actual graduation to start, they had some of the students tape record messages of thanks to their parents and shared memories of school, the whole "everyone walking in" process was REALLY fast, PERFECT sound system (some feedback yet really, compared to all the ones I had attended, this was like a rock concert sound system!), not only heard everyone's names but heard the speeches and the inspirational stories of some of the students-
Examples- one was a student from Bosnia, who at first, didn't know the English language very well and was now going to Stanford on a Scholarship, 2 students had cancer and won the battle and were there graduating, and there were about 20-ish students with full on athletic scholarships to some big time colleges! Seriously, impressive!
Oh and these kids were SO creative and had spunk while giving their speeches, just amazing! If EVERY graduation was like that, they would probably be more tolerable! I think the best thing high schools should do to stop from every "Joeblow" person from attending would be having a set amount of tickets! Except for the Vista graduation, the other 2 graduations and mine had tickets. So if any of you work for a high school and have the same problems at your graduations as them being HORRENDOUS, try the ticket thing....
I'll end this with what I did at LBS's graduation. I was still very pissed about my graduation so when I had to attend hers at the same high school I went to, when they called her name, I was basically right there with all the teachers taking pictures of her getting her diploma. Right when they called her name, I yelled her nickname as loud as I could to the point everyone turned around and looked at me! Yeah sure, call me a hypocrite for yelling at LBS's graduation yet I got mad at the girl behind us but ya know what??? I felt I had EVERY right to do that and I was giving the infamous "Fuck You!" to the damn school I went to and damn it, it felt great! All LBS did was turned and waved....
It was pretty woot.... =)
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Whoa...
Talk about a shitty day in the media world....
1- The R. Kelly Verdict..... What.The.FUCK?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!? Seriously, it's SUCH a good thing I am not into running for any kind of office where I could possibly one day become president cuz if that were the case, I would probably be assassinated for my new rules/laws/views of this country, which is called, "The greatest country in the WORLD"! MORE LIKE "WE'RE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF WORLD"!!!! How could a jury let him go??? I mean, the man was being charged with 14 counts of CHILD PORNOGRAPHY and didn't even get a slap on the hand??? Even after the verdict, some of them mentioned that they knew it was him in the video but because there was NO OTHER EVIDENCE (BTW- how much MORE do you need when you have THAT!?) they couldn't say that he was guilty because the girl in the video (who, by the way, was Kelly's GOD DAUGHTER!) didn't want to deal with the drama and testify. Just mind blowing.... Thinking that was going to be the worst thing I was going to hear today.....
2- Tim Russert passes away unexpectedly. Now I will say that I didn't watch his show all the time and at first, the name wasn't clicking with me but the moment I saw his picture on the news, I just started to tear up. This man was 58. This man actually brought good into this world. This man was a good man. 58 years old. It also hit me hard because my dad is 58 and he doesn't take care of himself as well as he should and it just scared me. I mean, I love both my parents so much and unconditionally yet I feel I have so much to learn from my father on what to do in regards of my career and what & how to take care of myself and my family financially. I would be inconsolable and wouldn't know what to do with myself if I lost him just in the next few years, let alone out of the blue! I try to remind him that I and we ALL need him here and that he HAS to take better of care of himself....
So after seeing everything that has happened, it made me think of life. How is it that a man, who's as guilty as anyone could be, get away without a slap on the hand yet a man, who brought integrity into not only the world of politics but just to life itself, passes on at the age 58???
Now, let me preface this and say that I am NOT a very religious person yet when things like this happen, in my opinion, there's only 2 ways of thinking:
1- that what we live in now is Hell and when we do pass on, we truly are rewarded by going to Heaven and if someone passes too early then it means that they have suffered enough in this ''Hell" and are being rewarded earlier than most for being such an outstanding human being
or
2- there is no God.
But hey, I'm just sayin'...
Hoping for a better day,
me. ={
Now, let me preface this and say that I am NOT a very religious person yet when things like this happen, in my opinion, there's only 2 ways of thinking:
1- that what we live in now is Hell and when we do pass on, we truly are rewarded by going to Heaven and if someone passes too early then it means that they have suffered enough in this ''Hell" and are being rewarded earlier than most for being such an outstanding human being
or
2- there is no God.
But hey, I'm just sayin'...
Hoping for a better day,
me. ={
Thursday, June 12, 2008
About me.
My "Blogmother" (Not Very Anon Mom) tagged me for this meme.... Here it goes:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning of the post.
Each player answers the questions about themselves in their post.
At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.
The Questions:
What was I doing ten years ago?
Well, I was 16 and just finishing sophomore year in High School. That summer, a friend of mine from school and I went down to San Diego to hang out with PH, her boyfriend at the time and boyfriend's friend. Boyfriend's friend was SUCH an amazing guy (BTW- he later turned into my "Will" as I was his "Grace"..... but it ended.). On the way down there, we got into a pretty big accident (some cars were totaled or severely damaged yet no one was hurt!). It was so big that they had to close part of the freeway and all that good shit! Since we had to play the waiting game for tow trucks and police men, we took pictures. One thing I'll never forget was while we were in Downtown San Diego, we saw a homeless man asking for food. Everyone was passing him by and ignoring him. As I thought about it and feeling bad for him, "Will" said, "Hey, let's go buy him something to eat." I had never done that before and it was such an awesome feeling to hand him a carnitas burrito and chips with about 2 or 3 things of water. That day we also went to the Museum of Death (re-opening soon!!!) and found out the owner was stuck in the horrendous traffic from the accident we were in (which wasn't our fault!) and gave us a discount!
What are five things on my to do list for today?
Well, woke up, did my morning routine of getting ready for work and checking to see if Delilah pooed anywhere (she's usually pretty good about using her potty pads yet she likes to also poo in certain parts of the house), went to Starbucks for my breakfast sandwich (they're discontinuing them in Sept.!!!! I'm heartbroken...), going to all my "sites" that I usually go to and I have a graduation to attend tonight (seriously, I can't believe AB is graduating.... I'm so old.)
Snacks I enjoy?
Hmmm...... Target cheese (cheddar), Sobe Lean Cranberry/Grapefruit, Goldfish crackers mixed with peanuts & pretzels, Pirate's Booty, a lot of the 100 calorie pack things.... There's more but I think I'll just stop here......
Things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Huh! Well, first things first- Get my place in Balboa (Peninsula or Island), travel like no other, get every kind of bulldog ever made (American, English, French.... Hell, if there's a Mexican one, I'll get that too!), and really, just enjoy life.
Five places I have lived?
Umm... I've only lived in 2 houses- and they were a mile away from each other! I've lived in Orange County, CA (in the city of Orange) all my life!
Five jobs I have had?
JUST 5!?!? Oh, god.... how am I going to pick these-- 5 worst or 5 best? I guess I'll just do the last 5.....
1- Tax Secretary/Tax Preparer at a CPA firm (where I am currently)
2- Receptionist at GE in Irvine at the Park Plaza Buildings
3- Admin. Assistant/Personal Shopper at Tiffany & Co. (yes, Tiffany's)
4- An Assistant to the VP of a up & coming technology company (one of the coolest bosses EVER!)
5- As an audience coordinator/check-in person for the Wade Robson's Project on MTV (SO MUCH FUN! Worth the 2 hr. drive in LA traffic)
How did you name your blog?
It's simple. I always say "woot". I actually started saying it before long before it became as popular (circa 2000) and I even thought about sending it to Webster's but I thought it would be too silly.... Oh, was I wrong since it was WORD OF THE YEAR LAST YEAR!!! But I spell it with "o's" instead of zeros.... It looks ridiculous with zeros....
Tagging some people here that I believe could use a little distraction:
As it is, I get ridicule from some people I know for having a blog and I also only know a few people who actually blog so how about whoever feels like doing this, just let me know.....
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning of the post.
Each player answers the questions about themselves in their post.
At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.
The Questions:
What was I doing ten years ago?
Well, I was 16 and just finishing sophomore year in High School. That summer, a friend of mine from school and I went down to San Diego to hang out with PH, her boyfriend at the time and boyfriend's friend. Boyfriend's friend was SUCH an amazing guy (BTW- he later turned into my "Will" as I was his "Grace"..... but it ended.). On the way down there, we got into a pretty big accident (some cars were totaled or severely damaged yet no one was hurt!). It was so big that they had to close part of the freeway and all that good shit! Since we had to play the waiting game for tow trucks and police men, we took pictures. One thing I'll never forget was while we were in Downtown San Diego, we saw a homeless man asking for food. Everyone was passing him by and ignoring him. As I thought about it and feeling bad for him, "Will" said, "Hey, let's go buy him something to eat." I had never done that before and it was such an awesome feeling to hand him a carnitas burrito and chips with about 2 or 3 things of water. That day we also went to the Museum of Death (re-opening soon!!!) and found out the owner was stuck in the horrendous traffic from the accident we were in (which wasn't our fault!) and gave us a discount!
What are five things on my to do list for today?
Well, woke up, did my morning routine of getting ready for work and checking to see if Delilah pooed anywhere (she's usually pretty good about using her potty pads yet she likes to also poo in certain parts of the house), went to Starbucks for my breakfast sandwich (they're discontinuing them in Sept.!!!! I'm heartbroken...), going to all my "sites" that I usually go to and I have a graduation to attend tonight (seriously, I can't believe AB is graduating.... I'm so old.)
Snacks I enjoy?
Hmmm...... Target cheese (cheddar), Sobe Lean Cranberry/Grapefruit, Goldfish crackers mixed with peanuts & pretzels, Pirate's Booty, a lot of the 100 calorie pack things.... There's more but I think I'll just stop here......
Things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Huh! Well, first things first- Get my place in Balboa (Peninsula or Island), travel like no other, get every kind of bulldog ever made (American, English, French.... Hell, if there's a Mexican one, I'll get that too!), and really, just enjoy life.
Three of my bad habits?
Hmmm.... See, I know for a fact that one of my bad habits is TOTALLY wrong/bad/will kill you but I consider it like my "therapy"/calms me down/and well, I kinda like it. Won't put it on here just for the fact some people out there don't know I do this (No, it's not illegal!). The other ones- I'm sometimes too blunt & don't think of what comes out of my mouth and I cuss, A LOT!
Five places I have lived?
Umm... I've only lived in 2 houses- and they were a mile away from each other! I've lived in Orange County, CA (in the city of Orange) all my life!
Five jobs I have had?
JUST 5!?!? Oh, god.... how am I going to pick these-- 5 worst or 5 best? I guess I'll just do the last 5.....
1- Tax Secretary/Tax Preparer at a CPA firm (where I am currently)
2- Receptionist at GE in Irvine at the Park Plaza Buildings
3- Admin. Assistant/Personal Shopper at Tiffany & Co. (yes, Tiffany's)
4- An Assistant to the VP of a up & coming technology company (one of the coolest bosses EVER!)
5- As an audience coordinator/check-in person for the Wade Robson's Project on MTV (SO MUCH FUN! Worth the 2 hr. drive in LA traffic)
How did you name your blog?
It's simple. I always say "woot". I actually started saying it before long before it became as popular (circa 2000) and I even thought about sending it to Webster's but I thought it would be too silly.... Oh, was I wrong since it was WORD OF THE YEAR LAST YEAR!!! But I spell it with "o's" instead of zeros.... It looks ridiculous with zeros....
Tagging some people here that I believe could use a little distraction:
As it is, I get ridicule from some people I know for having a blog and I also only know a few people who actually blog so how about whoever feels like doing this, just let me know.....
Monday, June 9, 2008
Lil' recap of the weekend....
Friday- Went out with my "aunt" (really, my dad's cousin but in my family, we consider anyone who is older than us either aunt or uncle! Just is...) to grab a bite to eat & see SATC. It was suppose to be all the women in our family (aka- 3 others! My CAM was out of town and she would have been the 4th) but they bailed out. It was nice though cuz her & I had really never hung out just us 2! We had great dinner conversation about family, friends, life and whatnot & well, I haven't really told anyone this but she had me do something that was pretty shocking yet amazing.....
See, most of you don't know how I am possibly one of the pickiest eaters ALIVE! Fruits/Vegetables=uh, NO!, Fish=get real!, anything semi-weird and exotic=in HELL! So we went to eat at a place called the "Market Broiler", where they specialize in fish. She flat out said to me that I had no choice but to try her salmon. Since I didn't want to throw a tantrum like a five who won't eat what's on their plate, I said, "Ok....".... Well, what do you know??? It wasn't that bad. Actually, it would probably be the ideal thing for me to eat cuz it wouldn't take that much to make me full! THEN she had me try a carrot........For the record, I know this all probably sounds ridiculous but seriously, this is some big shit!!! Took a bite and it actually reminded me of a kinda hard potato...... So yeah. That was something........
Anyways, saw SATC. It was my 2nd time since I went opening night. I must say it was actually better the 2nd time around.... My "aunt" LOVED it and I will most likely see it 2 more times, once with my CAM and another with my mom and her semi-prude cousin (who, I must say, has gotten better over the years yet it was still awkward seeing "40 year old virgin" with her AND my mom!) Went home to the lil bitch (aka-Delilah.... I love her & she's adorable but god, she's a bitch!) and went to sleep....
Saturday- Laid in bed ALMOST all day and caught up with stuff on my DVR, which I truly needed to do! Pretty bad since I basically did catch up but oh well! I really just wanted to do that! It was nice....... Then I noticed that Delilah, for some reason, likes to lay on her potty pads and well, she smelled so I asked PH if she would help me give her a bath. Since it was Delilah's first bath, there were pictures taken and she actually really liked it! She liked it so much that when I went into the bathroom to wash my face, she followed me in, stood on her tippy toes and was looking into the bath tub, as if she wanted to go back in....... It was SUPER cute!
Later that night, PH and I went to go see "The Fall"....... Now, if some of you have NOT seen the preview/trailer for the movie, go here. If you are interested in seeing the movie, stop reading here and jump to the paragraph after the stars JUST IN CASE you don't want the experience to be possibly ruined......
**We first saw the preview when we went to see "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and I was in awe. I couldn't WAIT for it to come out! I waited basically 2 months since seeing the preview to see this movie so I was dying in anticipation! My review-- Visually stunning. If this was a silent film, it would be the most AMAZING thing ever captured on film! It was beautiful! The thing that semi but not really brought it down was the story. Yeah, there was a point and it was made and you got something out of it yet they could have done more with the script. I was originally going to give it an A-/B+ yet PH reminded me of the movie "Pan's Labyrinth" and then I changed my grade from a B+/ solid B....... I still say people should go see it just for how gorgeous the film is! And while you're at it, watch "Pan's Labyrinth" too that way you can see what I'm talking about! You can thank me later..... =)**
Sunday- Hung out with the "units". Went to pick up my cousin who just came back from Outdoor Ed and he & I got to talk about how much we REALLY didn't like our experiences when we went! He did say his experience was better than mine but I think any one's would have been better than when I went:
-Our teacher told us what to pack, how to dress, how the weather was going to be.... all that good stuff! We took like 2 pairs of jeans, tons of shirts and tank tops and like 1 jacket since, according to my teacher, it was going to be like 70-80 degrees....... Yeah...... Too bad, even in the end of April, it was hardcore snowing!!!! We had easily had 2 feet of snow on the ground and still had to go on all the hikes and trails! 3 people brought gloves so the rest of us had stuff from the lost and found (I had one green glove & a brown mitt)!
-My counselor was TOTALLY crazy (most likely bordering on bipolar!) since in public she would be bouncing off the walls and then when we were in our cabin, she would yell, jump & scream at us, just for the hell of it!
-We had to do a square dance on the last night there and I wanted to dance with the guy I had a crush on. Well, since my 6th grade teacher was "semi"-racist, he basically partnered the Mexicans together, the white kids together, the black kids and so on..... So I got to dance with (coincidentally) with a "nerdy, big glasses and bowl hair cut" HO........ It was truly embarrassing and I couldn't wait to go home!
-Everyone cried on the way home from Outdoor Ed because they were going to miss it. I, on the other hand, was literally singing, "We're going home, we're going home"
-Oh and on the way home, my teacher informed me that my mom almost came up with the principal for the last night "festivities"! My mom knew my principal from back in the day and he invited her and she was ready to come but she then had something come up and didn't.... Let me tell you, if she did come up, I would have made the biggest scene for her to take me home THAT night!!! I do remember jumping into my mom's arms when I got home cuz I was SOOOO happy to be back!
Anyways, back to Sunday-- Just went out to dinner with LBS and then went to CAM to hang out for a lil. Then went home, did laundry and watched Delilah go crazy chasing after a toy laser my mom bought at Pet Smart. It was quite hilarious..... =) It also tires her out, which is a VERY good thing!
Alright, hopefully tomorrow, I'll be able to post something a lil more exciting...... Thanks for reading!
me! =)
See, most of you don't know how I am possibly one of the pickiest eaters ALIVE! Fruits/Vegetables=uh, NO!, Fish=get real!, anything semi-weird and exotic=in HELL! So we went to eat at a place called the "Market Broiler", where they specialize in fish. She flat out said to me that I had no choice but to try her salmon. Since I didn't want to throw a tantrum like a five who won't eat what's on their plate, I said, "Ok....".... Well, what do you know??? It wasn't that bad. Actually, it would probably be the ideal thing for me to eat cuz it wouldn't take that much to make me full! THEN she had me try a carrot........For the record, I know this all probably sounds ridiculous but seriously, this is some big shit!!! Took a bite and it actually reminded me of a kinda hard potato...... So yeah. That was something........
Anyways, saw SATC. It was my 2nd time since I went opening night. I must say it was actually better the 2nd time around.... My "aunt" LOVED it and I will most likely see it 2 more times, once with my CAM and another with my mom and her semi-prude cousin (who, I must say, has gotten better over the years yet it was still awkward seeing "40 year old virgin" with her AND my mom!) Went home to the lil bitch (aka-Delilah.... I love her & she's adorable but god, she's a bitch!) and went to sleep....
Saturday- Laid in bed ALMOST all day and caught up with stuff on my DVR, which I truly needed to do! Pretty bad since I basically did catch up but oh well! I really just wanted to do that! It was nice....... Then I noticed that Delilah, for some reason, likes to lay on her potty pads and well, she smelled so I asked PH if she would help me give her a bath. Since it was Delilah's first bath, there were pictures taken and she actually really liked it! She liked it so much that when I went into the bathroom to wash my face, she followed me in, stood on her tippy toes and was looking into the bath tub, as if she wanted to go back in....... It was SUPER cute!
Later that night, PH and I went to go see "The Fall"....... Now, if some of you have NOT seen the preview/trailer for the movie, go here. If you are interested in seeing the movie, stop reading here and jump to the paragraph after the stars JUST IN CASE you don't want the experience to be possibly ruined......
**We first saw the preview when we went to see "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and I was in awe. I couldn't WAIT for it to come out! I waited basically 2 months since seeing the preview to see this movie so I was dying in anticipation! My review-- Visually stunning. If this was a silent film, it would be the most AMAZING thing ever captured on film! It was beautiful! The thing that semi but not really brought it down was the story. Yeah, there was a point and it was made and you got something out of it yet they could have done more with the script. I was originally going to give it an A-/B+ yet PH reminded me of the movie "Pan's Labyrinth" and then I changed my grade from a B+/ solid B....... I still say people should go see it just for how gorgeous the film is! And while you're at it, watch "Pan's Labyrinth" too that way you can see what I'm talking about! You can thank me later..... =)**
Sunday- Hung out with the "units". Went to pick up my cousin who just came back from Outdoor Ed and he & I got to talk about how much we REALLY didn't like our experiences when we went! He did say his experience was better than mine but I think any one's would have been better than when I went:
-Our teacher told us what to pack, how to dress, how the weather was going to be.... all that good stuff! We took like 2 pairs of jeans, tons of shirts and tank tops and like 1 jacket since, according to my teacher, it was going to be like 70-80 degrees....... Yeah...... Too bad, even in the end of April, it was hardcore snowing!!!! We had easily had 2 feet of snow on the ground and still had to go on all the hikes and trails! 3 people brought gloves so the rest of us had stuff from the lost and found (I had one green glove & a brown mitt)!
-My counselor was TOTALLY crazy (most likely bordering on bipolar!) since in public she would be bouncing off the walls and then when we were in our cabin, she would yell, jump & scream at us, just for the hell of it!
-We had to do a square dance on the last night there and I wanted to dance with the guy I had a crush on. Well, since my 6th grade teacher was "semi"-racist, he basically partnered the Mexicans together, the white kids together, the black kids and so on..... So I got to dance with (coincidentally) with a "nerdy, big glasses and bowl hair cut" HO........ It was truly embarrassing and I couldn't wait to go home!
-Everyone cried on the way home from Outdoor Ed because they were going to miss it. I, on the other hand, was literally singing, "We're going home, we're going home"
-Oh and on the way home, my teacher informed me that my mom almost came up with the principal for the last night "festivities"! My mom knew my principal from back in the day and he invited her and she was ready to come but she then had something come up and didn't.... Let me tell you, if she did come up, I would have made the biggest scene for her to take me home THAT night!!! I do remember jumping into my mom's arms when I got home cuz I was SOOOO happy to be back!
Anyways, back to Sunday-- Just went out to dinner with LBS and then went to CAM to hang out for a lil. Then went home, did laundry and watched Delilah go crazy chasing after a toy laser my mom bought at Pet Smart. It was quite hilarious..... =) It also tires her out, which is a VERY good thing!
Alright, hopefully tomorrow, I'll be able to post something a lil more exciting...... Thanks for reading!
me! =)
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Here ya go!
This is Delilah:
This is her first meeting with the filthy animal:
This is her hiding in the couch:
She got herself in that position:
This is her being lazy, well, like me:
All these pics were taken the first week or so of us having her. We got her at approx. 6 weeks so she was SUPER small! Believe me, I'll post some new ones later this week and you will DEFINITELY see how big she is now! Just remember though, she looks super sweet and innocent but she is a terror but I can't deny how damn hilarious she is!
me =)
This is her first meeting with the filthy animal:
This is her hiding in the couch:
She got herself in that position:
This is her being lazy, well, like me:
All these pics were taken the first week or so of us having her. We got her at approx. 6 weeks so she was SUPER small! Believe me, I'll post some new ones later this week and you will DEFINITELY see how big she is now! Just remember though, she looks super sweet and innocent but she is a terror but I can't deny how damn hilarious she is!
me =)
Friday, June 6, 2008
Would you be my neighbor???
Seriously, our kids (or future kids) are fucked! Unless this were to come out on DVD or hopefully PBS will be smart enough to NEVER take this off the air, how will they ever understand how fantastic Mister Roger's Neighborhood was??? I mean, seriously??? Look at all the crap that's on TV these days for kids..... In my opinion, there's really no great role model for kids to look up to, a lot of cartoons are REALLY cracked out & inappropriate (I will NEVER get over how "Ed,Edd, and Eddie" is suppose to be for kids!) and no one to really teach them hard work and discipline. Yeah, there's the parents that are there to teach them that but have you noticed that a lot of parents aren't? Please don't take this the wrong way cuz I do know some AMAZING people out there that are kick ass parents but I can't help but notice that for every great parent, there's about 3 not so great parents. They may be too busy with work or maybe just had kids cuz they thought they needed to b/c it was time to settle down and start a family when they know damn right they weren't ready.
Whatever the case is, I feel that there should be better influences out there for the future of America. If things keep going the way it is, our kids will elect Miley Cyrus as the first woman president of the United States & for everytime she does something wrong/bad, the excuse will be "Well, my best friend Leslie says, 'Oh, she's just being Miley!' "
So please, for all the parents (especially younger parents that are my age or even younger), inform your kids on the great man that was Mister Rogers. If you need help, here's an article I saw on Bean's Blog about the greatest that was..... RIP Mister Rogers..... I only hope someone can one day teach and influence a generation of children the way you did but I know no one can ever replace you....
me =)
Whatever the case is, I feel that there should be better influences out there for the future of America. If things keep going the way it is, our kids will elect Miley Cyrus as the first woman president of the United States & for everytime she does something wrong/bad, the excuse will be "Well, my best friend Leslie says, 'Oh, she's just being Miley!' "
So please, for all the parents (especially younger parents that are my age or even younger), inform your kids on the great man that was Mister Rogers. If you need help, here's an article I saw on Bean's Blog about the greatest that was..... RIP Mister Rogers..... I only hope someone can one day teach and influence a generation of children the way you did but I know no one can ever replace you....
me =)
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Hey there....
Long time, no talk! Yeah, I know.... My fault. But, dude. I've been SO out of it lately. For some reason, I was getting annoyed with the thought of writing down my thoughts and just posting anything on here! I felt as if this was some kind of torture or homework assignment I had to do and I didn't want it to feel that way! I actually enjoy the idea of writing down what's going on and being able to look back at it one day....... I guess I got overwhelmed when I wouldn't finish a post or I was too tired to write in it. So it would just keep piling up and I would look at it and say, "Fuck that shit!" and go check one of my many sites.........
Well, since we last spoke, I became the mother to a 2 lb. 8 oz. maltipoo puppy. Her name is Delilah and yes, I named her after the song "Hey there Delilah". Ever since that song came out, I thought it was SO beautiful and sweet. I still think it is but it got WAY over played!
Some of you who know me are probably thinking, "You have a maltipoo???". Well, I'm on the same boat as you! I never thought I would have anything in the "poo" family since I am a HUGE fan of dogs that are 75 lbs. and above, let alone my undying love for anything in the bulldog family! All I have to say is "beggars can't be choosers"!
See, if you remember, back on the April 12th post, we went to a client's house that just had puppies. They said that they were going to give me a puppy but I honestly didn't hold my breath that we were actually going to get it. I just felt that it would fall through or my mom would change her mind, SOMETHING! I don't know..... So when we went to pick her up, it was kinda surreal that I was going to have my own dog for the first time in 6 years....
I must say that I was worried and everyone else thought that we were going to get a lil prissy dog that would succumb to the ways of the filthy animal in our house but no...... We were wrong! She is a feisty lil bitch!!!! My future as a hand model is down the shitter due to her nawing and biting on my hands, she tries to bite the bottom of my pants ALL THE TIME, she'll bark if she doesn't get her way, but most of all, she has the filthy animal scared shitless! He's has SUCH anxiety around her that I feel we have to put him on some kind of meds but she's HILARIOUS!!! She thinks she's 350 lbs. when she's barely 3.5 lbs.!!! When I get home, I'll definitely post pics of her. Since we got her, she has gotten SOOOO big so quick! Wait til you see her....
Work is still the same but instead of shredding I'm now scanning! We're moving into a different office in about a month or so and instead of taking some REALLY old files, we're (ok, I'm!) scanning them that way it would be less shit to move. Home is, other than the new addition, basically the same as well. Last Saturday was my cousin AB's 18th birthday and as a gift, I told him I would pay & take him for his 1st tattoo. I told him I would get the same thing, too. Well, his was starting to get out of hand so I told him I was only paying for the part of his tattoo that was the same as mine and he would pay for the rest! So last weekend, I got what will most likely be my last tattoo. To think, I never wanted one and now I have 6! All hidden, of course! I'll try to get a pic of mine up here but I'll put a pic of AB's......
I'm going to have a procedure done sometime this month. It's nothing big or scary. Just something that has been there for too long and I'm sick of it and want it taken care of! It was suppose to be done last month but the place I was going to have it done at wanted to take advantage of us and basically pretended as if I didn't have insurance (which I not only have but it's also good insurance!) so we (my father & I) fought to have it done in a regular hospital and not at a "private location". Their excuse for having it done there and not a regular hospital is that they wanted to perform the procedure in a "nice, clean place".... Yeah, so do I, just don't sexual assault and take advantage of me! And yeah, I know hospitals have their moments of not being as clean as possible but they swear doing it at a hospital is the equivalent of doing it in a barn!
LBS, "the units" and I are going to Vegas. Since LBS has a convention to attend for her work and I get free rooms, I was her first pick to go with her! <--- (BTW-You're welcome.) The units are just coming for the hell of it! Me, I have one main plan and that is to gamble! It's been WAY to long since I've been in a casino and the itch needs to be scratched! I also haven't been to Vegas since my birthday, which was over 6 months ago and it's just time to go! The drive is about 3-4 hrs. yet I enjoy it! We'll be gone from the 15th-18th and then that Friday the 20th, I'm going camping at the beach for the first time since '94 when I got 2nd degree burns on my face. Talk about good times! My face was literally melting off and blistering..... It was great.* (*please note sarcasm! I highly doubt anyone would have found looking like Freddy Kruger for the whole summer before going into the 7th grade fun!) All I have to say is that my boss is woot for letting me take all this time off! I also assume he's thrilled that he doesn't have to pay me for all the time I'm taking off as well so that saves him! But the big thing is that in exactly 3 months, I will be on my way to NEW YORK!!! I still can't believe I'm going! And seriously, thank GOD I bought my ticket when I did! If not, I would be looking into a 500-600 dollar ticket right now and that would suck BEYOND belief! As of right now, I'm going to see "RENT" and possibly another play or so..... Then still waiting to hear if one of my dear best friends is going that way her & I can troll around and get to experience fashion week! And I think I will be possibly meeting someone I have admired for a while for at least a cup of coffee! Hopefully I can talk him into taking a pic of me.... =)
So yeah, that kinda updates what's been going on with me.... Starting now, I'm going to start posting news articles, pics, maybe music and whatever else interests me and to also try and start conversation within the blog as well......
Anyways, thanks for your time and thanks for checking up!
ttyl,
me! =)
Well, since we last spoke, I became the mother to a 2 lb. 8 oz. maltipoo puppy. Her name is Delilah and yes, I named her after the song "Hey there Delilah". Ever since that song came out, I thought it was SO beautiful and sweet. I still think it is but it got WAY over played!
Some of you who know me are probably thinking, "You have a maltipoo???". Well, I'm on the same boat as you! I never thought I would have anything in the "poo" family since I am a HUGE fan of dogs that are 75 lbs. and above, let alone my undying love for anything in the bulldog family! All I have to say is "beggars can't be choosers"!
See, if you remember, back on the April 12th post, we went to a client's house that just had puppies. They said that they were going to give me a puppy but I honestly didn't hold my breath that we were actually going to get it. I just felt that it would fall through or my mom would change her mind, SOMETHING! I don't know..... So when we went to pick her up, it was kinda surreal that I was going to have my own dog for the first time in 6 years....
I must say that I was worried and everyone else thought that we were going to get a lil prissy dog that would succumb to the ways of the filthy animal in our house but no...... We were wrong! She is a feisty lil bitch!!!! My future as a hand model is down the shitter due to her nawing and biting on my hands, she tries to bite the bottom of my pants ALL THE TIME, she'll bark if she doesn't get her way, but most of all, she has the filthy animal scared shitless! He's has SUCH anxiety around her that I feel we have to put him on some kind of meds but she's HILARIOUS!!! She thinks she's 350 lbs. when she's barely 3.5 lbs.!!! When I get home, I'll definitely post pics of her. Since we got her, she has gotten SOOOO big so quick! Wait til you see her....
Work is still the same but instead of shredding I'm now scanning! We're moving into a different office in about a month or so and instead of taking some REALLY old files, we're (ok, I'm!) scanning them that way it would be less shit to move. Home is, other than the new addition, basically the same as well. Last Saturday was my cousin AB's 18th birthday and as a gift, I told him I would pay & take him for his 1st tattoo. I told him I would get the same thing, too. Well, his was starting to get out of hand so I told him I was only paying for the part of his tattoo that was the same as mine and he would pay for the rest! So last weekend, I got what will most likely be my last tattoo. To think, I never wanted one and now I have 6! All hidden, of course! I'll try to get a pic of mine up here but I'll put a pic of AB's......
I'm going to have a procedure done sometime this month. It's nothing big or scary. Just something that has been there for too long and I'm sick of it and want it taken care of! It was suppose to be done last month but the place I was going to have it done at wanted to take advantage of us and basically pretended as if I didn't have insurance (which I not only have but it's also good insurance!) so we (my father & I) fought to have it done in a regular hospital and not at a "private location". Their excuse for having it done there and not a regular hospital is that they wanted to perform the procedure in a "nice, clean place".... Yeah, so do I, just don't sexual assault and take advantage of me! And yeah, I know hospitals have their moments of not being as clean as possible but they swear doing it at a hospital is the equivalent of doing it in a barn!
LBS, "the units" and I are going to Vegas. Since LBS has a convention to attend for her work and I get free rooms, I was her first pick to go with her! <--- (BTW-You're welcome.) The units are just coming for the hell of it! Me, I have one main plan and that is to gamble! It's been WAY to long since I've been in a casino and the itch needs to be scratched! I also haven't been to Vegas since my birthday, which was over 6 months ago and it's just time to go! The drive is about 3-4 hrs. yet I enjoy it! We'll be gone from the 15th-18th and then that Friday the 20th, I'm going camping at the beach for the first time since '94 when I got 2nd degree burns on my face. Talk about good times! My face was literally melting off and blistering..... It was great.* (*please note sarcasm! I highly doubt anyone would have found looking like Freddy Kruger for the whole summer before going into the 7th grade fun!) All I have to say is that my boss is woot for letting me take all this time off! I also assume he's thrilled that he doesn't have to pay me for all the time I'm taking off as well so that saves him! But the big thing is that in exactly 3 months, I will be on my way to NEW YORK!!! I still can't believe I'm going! And seriously, thank GOD I bought my ticket when I did! If not, I would be looking into a 500-600 dollar ticket right now and that would suck BEYOND belief! As of right now, I'm going to see "RENT" and possibly another play or so..... Then still waiting to hear if one of my dear best friends is going that way her & I can troll around and get to experience fashion week! And I think I will be possibly meeting someone I have admired for a while for at least a cup of coffee! Hopefully I can talk him into taking a pic of me.... =)
So yeah, that kinda updates what's been going on with me.... Starting now, I'm going to start posting news articles, pics, maybe music and whatever else interests me and to also try and start conversation within the blog as well......
Anyways, thanks for your time and thanks for checking up!
ttyl,
me! =)
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